The myth of language universals

Evans, N., & Levinson, S. C. (2009). The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32(5), 429-448.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2009

Volume

32

Issue

5

Pages

429-448

DOI

10.1017/s0140525x0999094x

DOI registrant

Cambridge University Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X0999094X

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sociology_anthropology

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Primes

• Native-Category Flattening
  • In translation and cross-linguistic NLP, source-language distinctions of aspect, evidentiality, or kinship collapse into target-language defaults when translation skips an intermediate stage that preserves the source.

    This sourceDocuments how source-language distinctions of kinship, aspect, and evidentiality collapse when forced into a target-language or universal scheme — cross-linguistic native-category loss.

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• Universal grammar
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